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Sep 29 '12
  • JOSH MARSHALL: This morning I introduced TPMPrime, the new membership section that will debut in October. We’ve had a great response so far. And many have asked: so what will it cost? Good question. We’ll be charging a $50 a year membership fee. After the launch period ends, we’ll also be offering the option of a monthly membership price. The annual cost of $50 breaks down to about $4.15 a month. If you want to buy a monthly, as opposed to an annual membership, it’ll be more per month — both because it costs us more to process 12 individual payments as opposed to 1 and also because we want to encourage people to sign up for a yearly membership. It’s important we get as many annual membership as possible at the outset for a simple reason: we need to build a sizable funding base for this new, membership-supported part of the site and annual memberships give us more ability to plan the year